wěi

kind of sturgeon

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
鱼 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

有 sound component

  Sound component

yǒu

  

have

Evolution

鲔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鲔 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鲔 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鲔 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鲔 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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wěi

kind of sturgeon, tuna; little tuna; Euthynnus alletteratus

Most common words with 鲔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

little tuna

鲔鱼

tuna

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6069th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Traditional

Unicode

U+9C94


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